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revigorate

revigorate verb: to give new vigour to.

Verb

revigorate (third-person singular simple present revigorates, present participle revigorating, simple past and past participle revigorated)

  1. (obsolete) To give new vigour to.

Adjective

revigorate (comparative more revigorate, superlative most revigorate)

  1. (obsolete) Having new vigour or strength; reinvigorated.
    • The fire which seem'd extinct / Hath risen revigorate: a living spark / From Auria's ashes, by a woman's hand / Preserved and quicken'd, kindles far and wide / The beacon-flame o'er all the Asturian hills.1814, Robert Southey, “Canto VII”, in Roderick the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 95

Forms of revigorate

Verb
third-person singular presentrevigorates
present participlerevigorating
past participlerevigorated
pastrevigorated
Adjective
comparativemore revigorate
superlativemost revigorate

Origin of revigorate

From Latin re- + vigoratus.

Questions about revigorate

What does revigorate mean?
Revigorate means to give new vigour to.
What part of speech is revigorate?
Revigorate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of revigorate?
The past tense of revigorate is revigorated.

Words near revigorate in the dictionary

  1. reviewish
  2. reviewless
  3. reviews
  4. reviewuate
  5. Revigny-sur-Ornain
  6. revigorate
  7. revigorated
  8. revigorates
  9. revigorating
  10. revile
  11. reviled

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